Quotesby GlyphSundar Pichai quotes on AI, with sources
CEO, Alphabet and Google · 28 quotes · latest Apr 7, 2026
- If I fast-forward, a lot of what are just information-seeking queries will be agentic in Search.
- In terms of living now and having a visceral feel for it, I think the closest, I would say, is if you’re coding, and you give it a complex task, and you never open the ID, and you’re in some agent manager world, and you see it do it, and how powerful it is.
- It turned out AI was the missing ingredient for a lot of ideas maybe 15 years or 10 years ago.
- To me, we were behind in terms of frontier LLM models, but we had all the capabilities internally, and we had to execute to meet the moment.
- We’re in the earliest stages of thinking about data centers in space.
- Whereas in the past, you may need to sit and envision five years out. The models are going to be dramatically different in a year’s time.
- As we scale, we’re getting dramatically more efficient: we were able to lower Gemini serving unit costs by 78% over 2025 through model optimizations, efficiency and utilization improvements.
- Gemini is becoming the AI engine for the world's most successful software companies.
- Search saw more usage in Q4 than ever before, as AI continues to drive an expansionary moment.
- To meet customer demand and capitalize on the growing opportunities ahead of us, our 2026 CapEx investments are anticipated to be in the range of $175 to $185 billion.
- It’s amazing to think that in just two years, AI has evolved from simply reading text and images to reading the room.
- In addition to topping leaderboards, our first party models, like Gemini, now process 7 billion tokens per minute, via direct API use by our customers. The Gemini App now has over 650 million monthly active users.
- As you saw at I/O, we are leading at the frontier of AI and shipping at an incredible pace. AI is positively impacting every part of the business, driving strong momentum.
- I almost feel the term doesn’t matter, what I know is by 2030 there’ll be such dramatic progress. We’ll be dealing with the consequences of that progress, both the positive externalities and the negative externalities that come with it in a big way by 2030.
- I don’t think we’ll quite get there by 2030, so my sense is it’s slightly after that, but I would stress it doesn’t matter what that definition is because you will have mind-blowing progress on many dimensions.
- I feel like we are in the AJI phase where dramatic progress, some things don’t work well, but overall you’re seeing lots of progress.
- I think there’s no engineer who, tomorrow, if you magically became 2x more productive, it’s just going to create more things.
- Like, now, across the company, we’ve accomplished a 10% engineering velocity increase using AI, but we plan to hire more engineers next year, right?
- Many years ago, I think it might’ve been 2017 or 2018, I said at the time, AI is the most profound technology humanity will ever work on. It’ll be more profound than fire or electricity.
- So because of that, I think I’m optimistic on the p(doom) scenarios, I think the underlying risk is actually pretty high, but I have a lot of faith in humanity kind of rising up to meet that moment.
- We think of agents as systems that combine the intelligence of advanced AI models with access to tools, so they can take actions on your behalf and under your control.
- What all this progress means is that we’re in a new phase of the AI platform shift. Where decades of research are now becoming reality for people, businesses and communities all over the world.
- A report from the ILO suggests that the augmentation effect will be 6X that of possible substitution.
- So what used to cost four dollars per million tokens now costs just 13 cents, and I expect this trend to continue. The result: intelligence is more available and accessible than ever before.
- We’re still in the early days, yet I already believe AI will be the most profound shift of our lifetimes. Bigger than the shift to personal computing, or to mobile.
- If Gemini 1.0 was about organizing and understanding information, Gemini 2.0 is about making it much more useful.
- Over the last year, we have been investing in developing more agentic models, meaning they can understand more about the world around you, think multiple steps ahead, and take action on your behalf, with your supervision.
- I believe the transition we are seeing right now with AI will be the most profound in our lifetimes, far bigger than the shift to mobile or to the web before it.
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Topics: Search, Agents, Coding, Robotics, Platform shift, Compute